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"I'm honestly struggling to understand the point of this book + hoping that because it's a series, there MUST be something redemptive here...but at 46% I'm close to DNFing this one." — Apr 11, 2026 04:25AM
"I'm honestly struggling to understand the point of this book + hoping that because it's a series, there MUST be something redemptive here...but at 46% I'm close to DNFing this one." — Apr 11, 2026 04:25AM
“Any writing which has influenced the thinking and the lives of innumerable people is important. Now, there are many millions in their sects and churches who feel the order, ‘Do thou,’ and throw their weight into obedience. And there are millions more who feel predestination in ‘Thou shalt.’ Nothing they may do can interfere with what will be. But “Thou mayest’! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.”
― East of Eden by John Steinbeck: A Timeless Tale of Family, Free Will, and the Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil
― East of Eden by John Steinbeck: A Timeless Tale of Family, Free Will, and the Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil
“It’s like a true crime version of telephone.”
― Drop Dead Sisters
― Drop Dead Sisters
“The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― East of Eden by John Steinbeck: A Timeless Tale of Family, Free Will, and the Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil
― East of Eden by John Steinbeck: A Timeless Tale of Family, Free Will, and the Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? —L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables”
― This Summer Will Be Different
― This Summer Will Be Different
“unyielding loyalty to a man I despise—is that Lidia North is a weak woman. Timid. Milquetoast. She has no metal in her spine, no opinions of her own. I need my friends to be interesting. To have vim and vigor.”
― The Frozen River
― The Frozen River
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